[flashrom] No EEPROM found (Sony Vaio VGN-FE21S)

[Joerg Mayer]

On Fri, Nov 27, 2009 at 06:27:10PM +0100, Carl-Daniel Hailfinger wrote:
> On 27.11.2009 17:43, ron minnich wrote:
> > Have we crossed some boundary where we're going to need tools to
> > systematically reverse engineer the EC now? Maybe we need to start
> > accumulating EC knowledge on a new coreboot.org page ... I am
> > realizing I don't understand them at all.
> >   
> 
> coreboot.org or flashrom.org? The goals are pretty different. Each needs
> EC interaction, but coreboot doesn't care about being able to flash and
> usually has people who can dump the chip, while flashrom cares very much
> about being able to flash and nothing else.
> 
> I tried to explain the EC situation from a flashrom perspective:
> http://www.flashrom.org/Supported_hardware#Unsupported_Laptops.2FNotebooks.2FNetbooks

Information about the EC used in thinkpads may possibly be gained from
tp_smapi: http://www.thinkwiki.org/wiki/Tp_smapi
The project has a thinkpad_ec module so they may have a method of reliably
detecting the beast :-)

 Ciao
   Jörg
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Joerg Mayer                                           <jmayer at loplof.de>
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